WP Photo by Bill O'Leary

I’m not sure that I fully buy the Washington Post’s headline about me today over it’s enormous Style section profile, though it’s certainly quite the treatment. Howard Kurtz devoted his entire column today to examining my new job at Washingtonian and my path to the magazine and the Style section almost the entire above-the-fold to the accompanying photo with the print headline of “Meet the New Boss.” Thankfully, most of the Washingtonian staff knew me before the piece went up on the bulletin board in our office kitchen, so it wasn’t a complete surprise to meet me.

For the Cliff Notes version of the profile, I’m going to boil it down to the adjectives Kurtz uses to describe me: one of Washington’s hottest young journalists, neatly organized, preppy-looking, soft-spoken, relative newcomer, placid, a flair for self-promotion, methodical, meticulous, and fair. He also makes reference to my “New England reserve.” All-in-all, there are worse words one can use to describe me, although my friends I think would take issue with the “placid” and “soft-spoken.”

The Kurtz piece also led to a post on PRNewser, an amusing piece on Portfolio.com, the standard liberal media conspiracy piece on Newsbusters, and was excerpted in Politico’s Playbook. All-in-all, a big media day.